[Andy]

http://edition.cnn.c...tion_technology

Quite weird, was watching Seconds from Disaster on the Discovery channel last night, and on that show it also had something similar to this.

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(CNN) -- A NASA satellite crashed back to Earth about three minutes after launch early Tuesday, the weight of the fairing caused the rocket and the satellite to come crashing down.

"We could not make orbit," NASA program manager John Brunschwyler said. "Initial indications are the vehicle did not have enough [force] to reach orbit and landed just short of Antarctica in the ocean."

The satellite, which would have monitored greenhouse gases to study how they affect the Earth's climate, was launched on a rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

The $273 million satellite, called the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, would have collected "precise global measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere" to help better forecast the changes in carbon dioxide "and the effect that these changes may have on the Earth's climate."

[vOlt]

Ah well its only worth 273 million $, they had all that money and they couldnt realise it would fail.

[qiqi1021]

Does that mean NASA physicists suck at maths?

[PiV]

It is a bit pathetic for that kind of organization to fail such a massive project

In conclusion, I would say that everyone can fail


Nb: Such a shame because I'm sure it would have been very useful to see how we pollute the earth and maybe some kind of solution for that. Anyway hopefully they found the problem and after a couple of hundred of million later they will be launching another one :wink:

[RedGrinGo]

I think NASA should reconsider themselves before doing TEA,
A lot of mishaps lately